Highlight: Quasi-Crystalline Order at Nanoscale
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 15:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Nanoparticles have a strong tendency to form periodic structures. Mixing and matching of two different types of nanoparticles allows the formation of binary nanoparticle superlattices isostructural to ionic or intermetallic compounds. In addition to periodic superlattices, binary mixtures of nearly spherical nanoparticles could lead to the growth of quasi-crystals.